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{|class= Understanding fear "wikitable" style="background-color: #efefff; width: 100%;"|Read more about '''[[Fear Compilation|Fear]]''' from the works of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo.|}__NOTOC__

<span style="background-color:#ffff00;color:#000000;">'''Fear'''</span><span style="background-color:#ffff00;color:#000000;">, desire and sorrow are diseases of the mind; born of its sense of division and limitation. </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Fear is deeply rooted in the unconscious and comes from the forces of ignorance of the lower nature. </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''Fear'''</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">is also a terribly contagious collective thing—it is much more contagious than the most contagious of illnesses. It is in the vital that the fear is felt and if one is sensitive, then they feel the fear in the environment and their vital latches onto it. </span><span style="background-color:#ffff00;color:#000000;">It comes from a disharmony between the vital vibrations. </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Fear is a barrier on the path of yoga as it hinders the closeness between the human soul and the divine. It indicates You breathe an invasion atmosphere of the hostile forces in the human consciousness. The hostile forces have created fear as a means of dominating living beings, animals and men.</span><span style="background-color:#ffff00;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:#ffff00;color:#000000;">It is more of a nervous sensation than an emotion</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">.</span><div style="color:#000000;">Causes of fear</div><div style="color:#000000;">Attachmentinstantly you feel frightened, desirewithout even knowing why or how, need for attentionnothing, trying to please and cravings come from the narrow limits &nbsp;simply because there was an atmosphere of the consciousness. These when they go unfulfilled gives rise to grief. Grief in turn gives rise to fear. </divref><span style="background-colorhttp:transparent;color:#000000;">The world is full of things that are unpleasant</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">and one of the reactions to those unpleasant things is fearincarnateword. This instinctive fear is almost inherited like various other stereotypes, race feelings, attractions and associations.<in/span><div style="color:#000000;">Types of fear<cwm/div><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Fear is manifested in different parts of selves i.e. physical fear, mental fear and vital fear. In majority of the people, physical is governed by the subconscious and fears that are <05/span><span style="background14-color:transparent;color:#000000;">driven out of active consciousness take refuge in that subconscious. Thus, the physical fear is in the subconscious hidden by the mental and vital fear which are much more conscious. The fear in the physical is in the sheer cells of the body and thus the body trembles with just a slight quivering.</span><span style="backgroundoctober-color:transparent;color:1953#000000;">When one indulges in unhealthy imagination, they give form to fears on the mental plane, thus causing mental fear. However, a man is a rational being, and one of the ways of overcoming fear is also through mind. As one can have immense fear in their physical and vital but by the force of mind one can overcome those fears. </span><div style="color:#000000;">Central vital, corresponding to the manipura chakra, is the seat of vitality and power. When fear invades through this, it can &nbsp;can possess and invade the consciousness. However, through deep courage this power of illusion and fear can be cast away. p38</divref>

= Overcoming '''Types of Fear ='''

<div style="color:#000000Fear can be classified as mental fear, vital fear and physical fear. Mental fear—all who have a little control over themselves or any human dignity can eliminate it;">One needs to put sincere effort vital fear is more subtle and discipline in overcoming asks for a greater control; as for physical fear. To put effort one needs , a veritable yoga is necessary to be courageous in not thinking about overcome it, for the cells of the object body are afraid of feareverything that is unpleasant, painful, because when one fears and constantly imagines the object of fearas soon as there is any unease, then even if it is as though one is attracting insignificant, the object cells of fear. Instead one must use one’s mind to imagine how would one the body become anxious, they don't like to respond be uncomfortable. And then, to overcome that, the object control of feara conscious will is necessary. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/19-june-1957#p6</divref>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Through expanding one's ''Vital Fear'''The fear is again that of the physical consciousness, by educating it and opening to or of the divine light one can let go of all grief and fear. If one truly believes vital element in the Divine, surrenders to the Divine, and opens one’s self to its protection and light, putting away one's own ego, fear it—it is bound to go awayafraid if it gives up desire that it will lose everything—or everything it wants—and gain nothing in exchange or at least nothing it wants. r<ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/desire#p56</spanref>

<div style="color:#000000;">When the fear Why there is deeply rooted, one needs to grip it hard and pull it out, which hurts the surface nature, but if one can have the courage and focus on one’s light, it is possible. ne needs to be vigilant and not allow it to come back.</div>Fear?=

Fear stems from a sense of inferiority. <div style="colorref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/students#000000;"p35</ref>Progress can be really slow but through courage A vast majority of men like to live in a limited sphere bound to their littleness and faith one can fight the adverse forces falsehood. They fear freedom and expand the consciousnesslight.</div>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">When There are three reasons. First, an excessive concern about one's security. Next, what one does not know always gives an uneasy feeling which is translated in the consciousness by fear. And above all, one lacks doesn't have the habit of a spontaneous trust in the divine, they solely depend on themselvesDivine.<ref>http://incarnateword. This path can be difficult as one’s trust still lies in ego’s personal independence and there is a refusal to surrender. /cwm/04/14-march-1951#p30</spanref>

<div style="color:#000000;">Mind and vital are mixed up on We like, love, welcome, hope for, joy in whatever our nature, the surface first habit of our being, or else a formed (often perverse) habit, the consciousnesssecond nature of our being, but they are quite separate forces in themselves. As one is able presents to separate themthe mind as pleasant, priyam; we hate, dislike, their distinct action can be understood and used in overcoming fear, have repulsion from or grief of whatever it presents to us as unpleasant, apriyam. Mind can accept This habit of the emotional nature gets into the Divine more easily while way of the vital is unconvinced intelligent will and obstinately goes on in search makes it often a helpless slave of desire, passion the emotional being or at least prevents it from exercising a free judgment and attraction government of the nature. This deformation has to the ordinary lifebe corrected. Then, mind under By getting rid of desire in the influence of psychic prana and its intermiscence in the soul can be &nbsp;used to govern emotional mind, we facilitate the vitalcorrection. <ref> http://incarnateword. in/cwsa/24/purification-the-lower-mentality#p7</divref>

= '''Physical Fear and Illness ='''

= <span style="background-color:#ffff00;color:#000000;">Nine-tenths Fear can be overcome by vigilance, courage, calmness, attitude of surrender and wideness of the danger in an illness comes from </span><span style="background-color:#ffff00;color:#000000;">fear</span><span style="background-color:#ffff00;color:#000000;">consciousness. </span><span style="background-color:#ffff00;color:#000000;">Fear</span><span style="background-color:#ffff00;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:#ffff00;color:#000000;">can give If you remain vigilant, then with the apparent symptoms increase of an illness; and it can give the illness tooForce upholding you,—its effects can go so far as that.</span><span style="backgrounda power of self-color:#ffff00;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Refusing the illnesscontrol will come,completely trusting a power to see and reject the Divine while infusing oneself with a confidence in wrong turn or the Divine Grace wrong reaction when it comes. Fear and busying yourself with something else can  completely eliminate unhappiness will not give you that. It is only by this vigilance accompanied by an opening to the supporting and guiding Force that it will come. </spanref><span style="background-color:transparent;colorhttp:#000000;">fear</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">incarnateword.in the cells of the body and help one not catch even contagious diseases.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:cwsa/31/fear#000000;">Fear and Deathp12</spanref> =

<div style="color:#000000;">One of the most subtle great remedies for conquering fear is to face boldly what one fears. You are put face to face with the danger you fear of death which comes from &nbsp;the concern for self-preservation so as to ensure the continuity of consciousness, fearing the unknownand you fear it no longer. THowever, this The fear of death is in the physical cells selves which is beyond reason and almost unconsciousdisappears. Thus, it is the most difficult to uproot<ref>http://incarnateword. in/cwm/06/10-march-1954#p22</divref>

<div style="color:#000000;">This fear goes against the fundamental notion that &nbsp;life The way to attain to this perfect consciousness is One to increase your actual consciousness beyond its present grooves and immortal. The forms are countlesslimits, to educate it, fleeting to open it to the Divine Light and brittle. This understanding can help us overcome fear of death. &nbsp;Thus reason can be used, another method is that of inner seeking i.e. searching to let the immortal light of psychic consciousness which is Divine Light work in all it fully and identifying with itfreely. &nbsp;Complete surrender to But the Divine, Light can do its full and believing that unhindered work only when you have got rid of all of us belong craving and fear, when you have no mental prejudices, no vital preferences, no physical apprehensions or attractions to Him integrallyobscure or bind you. <ref>http://incarnateword. in/cwsa/31/fear#p14</divref>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">The fear of death Another effective method is not just restricted for those who have faith in a God, their God, and who have given themselves to him. They belong to him integrally; all the death events of their lives are an expression of the physicaldivine will and they accept them not merely with calm submission but with gratitude, but also the death for they are convinced that whatever happens to them is always for their own good. They have a mystic trust in their God and in their personal relationship with him. They have made an absolute surrender of the egotheir will to his and feel his unvarying love and protection, wholly independent of the accidents of life and death . They have the constant experience of a past version lying at the feet of one’s their Beloved in an absolute self, the fear -surrender or of letting gobeing cradled in his arms and enjoying a perfect security. When one does not have the courage to liveThere is no longer any room in their consciousness for fear, it is often because something within oneself anxiety or torment; all that has to die for something new to be bornbeen replaced by a calm and delightful bliss. It is then one should have that </spanref><span style="background-colorhttp:transparent;color:#000000;">'''courage'''</span><span style="background/incarnateword.in/cwm/12/the-fear-of-death-color:transparent;color:#000000;">, </span><span style="backgroundand-color:#ffff00;color:#000000;">the true </span><span style="background-color:#ffff00;color:#000000;">'''courage'''</span><span style="backgroundfour-methods-of-conquering-color:#ffff00;color:it#000000;"> p3</spanref><span style="background-colorHowever, there is a way to be free from fear:#ffff00;color:#000000;">it is to abolish have faith in the egoDivine Grace and to rely on It to protect you in all circumstances. </span>

<div style="color:#000000;">Fear and Religion</div>  <span style="background-color:#ffff00;color:#000000;">The </span><span styleReferences ="background-color:#ffff00;color:#000000;">'''fear'''</span><span style="background-color:#ffff00;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:#ffff00;color:#000000;">of the Gods is the beginning of religion.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''Fear'''</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">of the gods arose from man's ignorance of God and his ignorance of the laws that govern the world. The idea of the divine in the form of judge, king exaggerates the importance of the sense of sin and thereby prolongs and increases the soul's </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''fear'''</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">and self-distrust and weakness. The fear of god is useful only when the soul has not yet grown sufficiently to follow good for its own sake and needs an authority above it whose judgment it can </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''fear'''</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">and found upon that </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''fear'''</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">its fidelity to virtue.</span>  <div style="color:#000000;">Courage</div> <span style="background-color:#ffffff;color:#777777;">Courage is the total absence of fear in any form.</span><span style="background-color:#ffffff;color:#777777;"> </span><span style="background-color:#ffff00;color:#777777;">True courage, in its deepest sense, is to be able to face everything, everything in life, from the smallest things to the greatest, from material things to things of the spirit, without a shudder, without physically ….without the heart beginning to beat faster, without the nerves trembling, without the slightest emotion in any part of the being. Face everything with a constant awareness of the Divine Presence, a total self-giving to the Divine, and the whole being unified in this will; then you can go forward in life and face anything whatever.</span><span style="background-color:#ffff00;color:#777777;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">When the vital is entirely surrendered to the divine it is full of courage, enthusiasm.</span> <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span>  <div style="color:#000000;">Conclusion</div> <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Everyone possesses two opposite tendencies of character, in almost equal proportions, which are like the light and the shadow of the same thing. Thus, when one has fear, one also has courage. And to get over this impurity of fear one has the resources in the form of courage, tapas and surrender. </span> <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Fear is a hidden consent. When one is afraid of something, it means that you admit its possibility and thus strengthen its hand. It can be said that it is a subconscient consent. </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Fear can be overcome in many ways. The ways of courage, reason, faith, knowledge, surrender are some of them.</span>   [[Fear Compilation]]